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en-GBNews-Medical.NetIDIBELL licenses a tool to Oxford Immunotec to improve efficiency of kidney transplants, prevent graft rejectionThe Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute has licensed to the company Oxford Immunotec, a technology to measure the secretion of anti-HLA antibodies from memory B cells to improve the efficiency of kidney transplants and prevent rejection of graft.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150731/IDIBELL-licenses-a-tool-to-Oxford-Immunotec-to-improve-efficiency-of-kidney-transplants-prevent-graft-rejection.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150731/IDIBELL-licenses-a-tool-to-Oxford-Immunotec-to-improve-efficiency-of-kidney-transplants-prevent-graft-rejection.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=b09bc01e-293e-4610-a88b-2e8d896d1b09Fri, 31 Jul 2015 05:42:29 -0400UChicago Medicine contributes to Illinois Transplant FundThe University of Chicago Medicine has become the first transplant center to contribute to the Illinois Transplant Fund (ITF), a new not-for-profit that provides financial support for organ transplants to qualified uninsured residents of northern and central Illinois and Northwest Indiana.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150731/UChicago-Medicine-contributes-to-Illinois-Transplant-Fund.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150731/UChicago-Medicine-contributes-to-Illinois-Transplant-Fund.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=3e10878b-55fd-4a94-9f5e-52fd1f27b872Fri, 31 Jul 2015 03:50:28 -0400IU scientists find evidence that invisible war between microorganisms may affect human healthHealth experts have warned for years that the overuse of antibiotics is creating "superbugs" able to resist drugs treating infection.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150731/IU-scientists-find-evidence-that-invisible-war-between-microorganisms-may-affect-human-health.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150731/IU-scientists-find-evidence-that-invisible-war-between-microorganisms-may-affect-human-health.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=02364081-3124-4362-ae60-1f54350de603Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:48:49 -0400Finding by UCSF researchers could increase availability of kidneys for transplantMild hypothermia in deceased organ donors significantly reduces delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients when compared to normal body temperature, according to UC San Francisco researchers and collaborators, a finding that could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for transplant.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150730/Finding-by-UCSF-researchers-could-increase-availability-of-kidneys-for-transplant.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150730/Finding-by-UCSF-researchers-could-increase-availability-of-kidneys-for-transplant.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=6298d0de-bb60-4199-831d-def32e788947Thu, 30 Jul 2015 04:29:50 -0400Researchers demonstrate direct connection between NOX proteins and liver fibrosisResearchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated a direct connection between two signaling proteins and liver fibrosis, a scarring process underlying chronic liver disease, the 12th leading cause of death in the United States.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150730/Researchers-demonstrate-direct-connection-between-NOX-proteins-and-liver-fibrosis.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150730/Researchers-demonstrate-direct-connection-between-NOX-proteins-and-liver-fibrosis.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=b9f356bf-6287-40ea-90ab-070ef021a6d1Thu, 30 Jul 2015 02:07:48 -0400New computer-based system provides real-time feedback before and during facial transplant surgeryFollowing several years of research and collaboration, physicians and engineers at Johns Hopkins and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center say they have developed a computer platform that provides rapid, real-time feedback before and during facial transplant surgery, which may someday improve face-jaw-teeth alignment between donor and recipient.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150730/New-computer-based-system-provides-real-time-feedback-before-and-during-facial-transplant-surgery.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150730/New-computer-based-system-provides-real-time-feedback-before-and-during-facial-transplant-surgery.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=08d78bed-f514-4094-ad1f-631199a83871Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:34:04 -0400CHOP surgeons successfully complete world's first bilateral hand transplant on childSurgeons at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia joined with colleagues from Penn Medicine recently to complete the world's first bilateral hand transplant on a child. Earlier this month, the surgical team successfully transplanted donor hands and forearms onto eight-year-old Zion Harvey who, several years earlier, had undergone amputation of his hands and feet and a kidney transplant following a serious infection.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150729/CHOP-surgeons-successfully-complete-worlds-first-bilateral-hand-transplant-on-child.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150729/CHOP-surgeons-successfully-complete-worlds-first-bilateral-hand-transplant-on-child.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=11ca27fc-ea25-4522-82c1-597a22d891afWed, 29 Jul 2015 03:04:21 -0400Organ donor honored at Reagan UCLA Medical CenterTwo years ago, Rachel Greenberg went out to run a few errands. While she was gone, her husband Glenn suffered a massive brain hemorrhage. He was immediately taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center where physicians explained he had suffered the worst kind of brain bleed.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150725/Organ-donor-honored-at-Reagan-UCLA-Medical-Center.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150725/Organ-donor-honored-at-Reagan-UCLA-Medical-Center.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=74c6a05f-33fb-4cf8-979d-ade70a072880Sat, 25 Jul 2015 07:03:05 -0400NEJM suggests use of HCV-positive kidneys as one solution to kidney shortageThe average wait time for a kidney transplant is five years and there are more than 100,000 people on the waiting list. However, there are thousands of viable hepatitis C-positive kidneys that are discarded each year solely because they're infected.http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150725/NEJM-suggests-use-of-HCV-positive-kidneys-as-one-solution-to-kidney-shortage.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150725/NEJM-suggests-use-of-HCV-positive-kidneys-as-one-solution-to-kidney-shortage.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=6117b960-774e-4d91-aed1-520804e85c78Sat, 25 Jul 2015 04:53:09 -0400Stem cell transplantation improves outcomes in children with rare form of chronic blood cancerResearchers in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation at Children's Hospital Los Angeles have shown greatly improved outcomes in using stem cell transplantation to treat patients with a serious but very rare form of chronic blood cancer called juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML).http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150724/Stem-cell-transplantation-improves-outcomes-in-children-with-rare-form-of-chronic-blood-cancer.aspx
http://www.news-medical.net/news/20150724/Stem-cell-transplantation-improves-outcomes-in-children-with-rare-form-of-chronic-blood-cancer.aspx#commenthttp://www.news-medical.net/post.aspx?id=479d9a2e-3516-42d7-b2bd-2fb5c7add993Fri, 24 Jul 2015 06:03:48 -0400